Ãva Heyman, aged 13, in Hungary a few months before she was murdered in a gas chamber, 1944. The young diarist Ãva Heyman grew up in a secular middle-class family in the town of NagyvÃ¡rad, which belonged to Hungary at the time Ãva wrote. Before World War I, NagyvÃ¡rad was the biggest city in eastern Hungary.
Selma Mansion. Selma Mansion is one of the oldest and most historic structures in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Located on the western edge of the town, Selma was built by General Andrew Porter in 1794 around an existing structure purchased from Alexander McCammon in 1786. Porter was a soldier during the American Revolutionary War and helped found the Continental Marines, forerunner of the U.S. Marine Corps.
Stevens inherited Selma at age 21, although quickly became bankrupt and was forced to sell the plantation. In 1896 the property was purchased by Elijah B. White. White commissioned Richmond architecture firm Noland and Baskervill to design a Colonial Revival mansion, which was built between 1900 and 1902 and included part of the earlier house as a kitchen wing.